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ESL for adults

Beginning Adult English – A Closer Look

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The Beginning Adult English series, by Kinney Brothers Publishing, is designed to extend students’ skills and interest in communicating in English. The two-book series provides students with exercises in reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Each textbook is detailed below with links for downloadable previews and purchase.

Kinney Brothers Publishing offers a wide range of ESL textbooks including Stories For Young Readers for junior high through high school learners, a Phonics Series that begins with your youngest students, and an Easy Sight Words Series. Be sure to check out Trends, a topical set of intermediate and advanced worksheets for secondary and adult English language learners. If you’re looking for more support materials, you might be interested in Q&A, Cursive Writing!, and a treasure trove of games, charts, and flashcards in Donald’s English Classroom!

Teaching Adults

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Trends Business and Culture Reports

Though Kinney Brothers Publishing is best known for its Phonics & Spelling and Stories For Young Readers series, we also have teaching material for adults!  Like all of our textbooks, the Trends: Business and Culture Reports series was created out of a need for classroom resources that, in this case, would spark the varied interests of adult language learners.

Robert Kinney, of Kinney Brothers Publishing, worked with students at Saidai University and government employees at the National Diet in Japan.  For these classes, topical lessons that promoted critical thinking and a more nuanced response in conversation were the lessons du jour.  In response, Robert created a collection of topical business reports and exercises to lead his intermediate and advanced students toward classroom discussions.  Trends: Business and Culture Reports is the result of Robert’s years teaching those classes.

Below are a few examples from the Trends series.  Two are free.  You can download individual lessons packs or the full textbooks by clicking on the images below.  This series is also available as black and white printed textbooks on the Kinney Brothers Publishing website.

I’d love to hear how your students respond to these lessons.  Please let me know in the comment section below!

As always, best of luck in your classes!

Donald Kinney
Kinney Brothers Publishing

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